Former ODU coach Larry headlines Virginia Sports Hall of Fame class

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Old Dominion coach Wendy Larry, who will be in the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, celebrates her team's 88-85 overtime win over Virginia in the second round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament in Norfolk on March 25, 2008.

Old Dominion coach Wendy Larry, who will be in the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, celebrates her team's 88-85 overtime win over Virginia in the second round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament in Norfolk on March 25, 2008.

(Haraz N Ghanbari / Associated Press)

Jami FrankenberryStaff writer

Wendy Larry, who guided the Old Dominion women's basketball team to unprecedented heights, highlights the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame's Class of 2019, announced Tuesday.

The class will be inducted April 6 at Zeider's American Dream Theatre in Virginia Beach. Event and ticket information will be released in December.

Larry's career at Old Dominion spanned more than 30 years as one of the first women to receive an athletic scholarship, as a graduate and assistant coach and as the head coach from 1987-2011. She left ODU with a 608-234 record that included 20 NCAA tournament appearances, 17 straight Colonial Athletic Association tournament titles and a runner-up finish in the 1997 NCAA tournament.

A look at the rest of the 2019 class:

Brown, a Lynchburg native, was an All-American at E.C. Glass High and was a three-time All-Big East selection at Pittsburgh. A first-round draft choice of the Buffalo Bills in 1995, Brown played 13 NFL seasons with the Bills and Bears and made nine Pro Bowls.

Miller, a native of Honaker, holds a host of records for tight ends at Virginia. In 2004, he was an All-American and the winner of the John Mackey Award for the best college tight end. He was a first-round draft pick in 2005, played on two Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl-winning teams and is one of only six NFL tight ends with more than 6,000 receiving yards.

Burton is a South Boston native who started 695 races over a 22-year NASCAR career. He won 21 events, finished among the top 10 in points eight times and in 1994 was the Winston Cup Rookie of the Year.

O'Brien starred for Princess Anne High in Virginia Beach and is a member of the Virginia High School League Hall of Fame. At the University of Richmond, he was an all-conference and all-state selection from 1966-68 and the 1968 Southern Conference Player of the Year.

White was the first full-time female sportswriter in Virginia, at the Daily Press from 1974-77, before embarking on a career at ODU that lasted more than three decades. She held numerous roles in sports information and communications and served on NCAA and U.S. Olympic committees.

Lenzi, from Stafford High near Fredericksburg, won the Olympic 3-meter springboard diving competition at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Four years later, he came out of a brief retirement and won the bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Lenzi won two NCAA diving championships (with Indiana University) and 18 international competitions and was twice named the United States Diver of the Year. He died in 2012 at age 43.

Yeager was commissioner of the Colonial Athletic Association from its inception in 1985 until his retirement in 2016. During his tenure, the CAA expanded its footprint along the East Coast and produced 19 national champions in five team sports.